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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2020-01-14 16:06:14 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-14 09:40:06 -0800
commit8379bb84be757d5df2d818509faec5d66adb861d (patch)
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keys: Fix request_key() cache
When the key cached by request_key() and co. is cleaned up on exit(), the code looks in the wrong task_struct, and so clears the wrong cache. This leads to anomalies in key refcounting when doing, say, a kernel build on an afs volume, that then trigger kasan to report a use-after-free when the key is viewed in /proc/keys. Fix this by making exit_creds() look in the passed-in task_struct rather than in current (the task_struct cleanup code is deferred by RCU and potentially run in another task). Fixes: 7743c48e54ee ("keys: Cache result of request_key*() temporarily in task_struct") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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